Refrigerator



Get. 23 1923.

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REFRIGERATOR.

. Application filed rebruar 'ie', 1922. Serial n6; 536,897.

To all whom 2'27 may concern:

lie it known that we, Azrroiv FosninM and .Anoiznw SiMoNs, citizens of the United States, residing at Grand Haven, in the county of Gttawa and Pilate of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Refrigerators, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in the construction of metal linings for refrigerators, and its objects are: first, to provide a means whereby the metal lining may be subjected to the intense heat necessary for coating one side thereof with porcelain with out the danger of warping or breaking at the corners; second, to provide a means whereby the ice box part of the lining may be securely and easily attached to the front of the wooden enclosing part of the refrigerator, and, third, to provide a means whereby the ice supporting shelf may be placed at any desired distance above the upper wall of the lower section of the refrigerator lining.

We attain these objects by the mechanism and construction of parts shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the metal lining of the refrigerator with the wooden enclosing frame shown in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan of the metal lining detached from the frame. Fig. t is an elevation of the corner construction as covered by our invention showing one form of connection. Fig. 5 is the same showing another form of connection, and, Fig. 6 shows the same corner as con-- structcd at the present time.

Similar reference characters indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing l represents the wooden enclosing frame m n refrigefator. 2, 2', 3, 3, 4 and 5 represent the outlines of the metal lining of thesame.

In Fig. 1, the dotted outlines 5, 6, indicate the outlines of the front of the wooden enclosing case, 7- and 8 indicating the compartments in the refrigerator for the storage of provisions, &c., and 8 indicates the ice box compartment. The several arrows in Figs, 1 and 2 are represented as indicating the course of air downwardly from the ice chamber through the opening 12 into the lower compartment of the refrigerator,

thence around to, and through the opening 13 back into the ice chamber, and 14 and 15 .case 1.

are openings for the dripping of 'iwater from the ice chamber, all of Which is coinmon in all'refrigerators of this make. In the common construction of these refrigerators the outturning flanges 2, 3, 3, 4 and 4 are all made of practically the same width, with a very narrow, weak supporting corner on the line 00-09 of Fig. 6. Our invention consists in making the flange 4 very much wider than any of the others, by means or" which several very desirable and advantageous results are attained, as, for instance,

with the very narrow, weak connection on the line 0cw it is next to impossible to pass the metal through the several heating processes necessary in construction, without having it warp out of shape, or, in many instances, break, and ruin the work already done, which with our construction the width of metal on the line yy renders it easy and absolutely safe to pass the metal through all of the several beatings necessary in welding, baking the porcelain coating &c.; second, the flange 4 being made as wide as the front cross rail, 5, of the wooden enclosing case enables us to secure the metal lining much more firmly in the case than would be possible with the ordi-, nary construction, and, third, by providing the flange with the slots a1, we are enabled to place the brackets 10 at varying heights above the top of the compartment 8, thus enabling us to place the shelf 9, that holds Y erly welding them, as indicated in Fig. 4:,-

or one may be made to overlap the other, as in Fig. 5, and the two electrically welded together before the coating of porcelain is baked upon the metal.

b, 5 represent screws, or other fastening elements for securing the brackets 10 upon the rails 5 and 5" of the wooden enclosing Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new in the art, is:

1. In combinatio with the metal lining of a refrigerator having an l. shaped provision compartment, and an ice compartment to one side of the vertical compartment and above the horizontal compartment for the storage of victuals, a broad flange integral With the lining and extending therefrom over the vertical side of the ice box, and a broader flange integral With the bottom lining of the ice box and extending upwardly over the lower end thereof, one end or each flange integrally united with the corresponding end of the other, and the other end. of each flange integrally united With an outturned flange on the remaining front edges 10 of said lining.

2. In combination with the elements ered in claim 1, the broader 0 ice box provided with venicall slots for facilitating the vertical J of the ire holding Shelf.

Sign-ed at Grand Haven, lvlichigen,

nary 28, 1922.

ANDREVV SHLO 

